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Come to bed with me?''Huh? No, I'd rather read this book about cancer…' As soon as Bob was diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer, he and his wife Elizabeth started making cancer jokes to take the edge off of an otherwise frightening situation. A lot of those jokes were about sex. Here, textile artist Elizabeth Shefrin has picked up a needle and thread to share those intimate jokes, revealing how they helped her and her husband to process the realities of cancer treatment. Giving lightness and humour to a rarely discussed topic, this unpretentious and wry embroidered comic will create awareness and discourse around a taboo topic, resonating with others in similar situations and reassuring us that it's ok to laugh.

Leia Penina Wilson&rsquo;s <i>i built a boat with all the towels in your closet (and will let you drown)</i> is at once a love ballad and a warning. These poems are&mdash;at their simplest&mdash;about relationships, sex, love, creatures, different kinds (and degrees) of violence, and&mdash;at their most complex&mdash;about the limits of the imagination, of language, and about the power the imagination has over the body. These poems confront the shifty line between human and animal, and urge the question: at what cost the body. Wilson&rsquo;s animal-human doesn&rsquo;t intend to answer that question; instead, she lunges towards it and tears it up and begins again, and again, and again.

In «The Embroidered Towel» by Mikhail Bulgakov the young doctor arrives at his new post after a bone-jarring 24-hour wagon ride. He frets about how young he looks, and feels intimidated by the well-stocked pharmacy and medical library his predecessor has left behind. He also worries that he'll have to treat a hernia and won't know what to do – this neurosis is a running joke in the book's initial stories. Mikhail Bulgakov wrote the stories in «A Country Doctor's Notebook» circa 1925-27, about a young doctor's practice and plight in rural Russia, they don't read outdated, musty or strange today. Instead, they evoke archetypal situations we experience in contemporary medical storytelling.